Zipping by

 

 

The "Zipper" ride in action attracts the attention of the carnival attendees.

 

 

Waiting for a player

Come on and play - roll a winner!

This "roll a ball" game at the carnival awaits the next round of competitors.

 

Lull in game

 

Step up and squirt

 

This carnival game, where players squirt water at a target for a chance to win a stuffed animal, gets a brief break between plays.

 

 

Skipper on clover

 

Sipping on clover, over and over

 

A skipper butterfly pauses on a clover flower for a refreshing sip of nectar. 

Endpaper wish

One hundred years ago, Aunt Annie wrote an inscription for the endpaper of a book:

 

 

   A. N. Acheson,

with Aunt Annie's dearest love.

                   Palm Sunday 1925.

                                      ===

 

 

Over the years, the endpapers experienced foxing:

and the pasted in inscription has imprinted itself onto the flyleaf.  The book:

 

 

 

"The Last Letters of Blessed Thomas More", is also heavily foxed.  

 

N.B., in 1925, Palm Sunday was on April 5th.

 

 

Flyleaf wishes

 

The calligraphic flourishes in the flyleaf of this book express hopes for everyone.

"With my very best wishes"

"With my very best wishes" are from Michael H. Pathe C. Ss. R., a priest of the Redemptorist Order who served parishes in the upper Midwest.  In 1931, he published "A Summer in Ireland".

Title page

In his book, he describes his visitations and observations of Ireland, his birth place.  He departed from New York City on June 1st, aboard the RMS "Baltic" of the White Star Line.  He returned via Galway, leaving there on September 4th.

The author does not provide the year of this vacation.  The book itself was copyright-ed in February, 1931, with a "Cum Permissu Superiorum".  We can speculate that the vacation was in 1930, or even earlier?  

 

Passenger lists and voyage logs from that time are not complete.  The RMS "Baltic" was launched on November 21, 1903 in Belfast.  Its maiden voyage was from Liverpool to New York on June 29, 1904.  Its primary routes (with returns to Liverpool) were:  Liverpool to New York; Liverpool, via Queenstown (now Cobh), to New York; and Liverpool, via Queenstown (now Cobh), to Boston and then New York.  She made roughly fifteen of these round trips per year.

On September 17, 1931, the ship began her last voyage of Liverpool to New York and a return to Liverpool.  On February 13, 1933, she left for Osaka to be scrapped.  RMS "Baltic" was one of four ships known as "The Big Liners", the others were RMS "Adriatic", RMS "Cedric", and RMS "Celtic". 

Thistle last

 

 

This arrangement of L's, raised buttons, and a topping of five dots makes for a sidewalk crossing plate that will last and is durable.

 

This Duralast branded product sporting the EJ company logo was seen in the street beneath our feet.